Workout Wednesday

2023 Week 19 | Power BI: Formatted bar chart and bookmark navigator

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! We’re taking inspiration once again from our friends at Makeover Monday. This one is fun – the Makeover Monday team was inspired by a bar chart featured in a blog post and they decided to recreate it in Tableau! You can read Andy’s full post on his blog if you want more info.  Today

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#WOW2023 Week 18: Can you combine relative and custom date filters?

Introduction One of my favorite challenges from the past is from Week 4 2020: Can you combine relative and custom dates? I was always fielding questions if I could have a relative date filter and a date picker on the same dashboard, but hadn’t ever figured it out. After Sean’s challenge that week, I implemented

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2023 Week 17 | Power BI: Peaches’ Parameters and Bowser’s Bookmarks

Introduction This week’s challenge is provided by Guest Contributor Ben Ferry aka Power BI Guy. Requirements Power Query Transform data (hint unpivot and reduce the number of columns) Load Data Power BI Desktop Create a Measure for the Sum of the values column Create a measure to rank the characters based on the measure you

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#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau?

Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I

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2023 Week 15 | Power BI: What-if parameters inspired by Makeover Monday

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re using a Makeover Monday dataset that was inspired by Andy Kriebel’s post on Twitter (dataviz inception!). Andy has been working through Makeover Monday challenges in Power BI, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to do some of these together! This week’s challenge uses what-if parameters, a

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Doge with a word cloud of US misspellings

2023 Week 14 | Power BI: Word Cloud and Modulo

Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by recent Twitter activities. We are creating a word cloud containing common misspellings in the US. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11357183/Google-search-data-reveals-commonly-misspelled-words-spell-correctly.html OR https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Misspellings Transform and load data HINT : Add Index column, create modulo column, unpivot data Power BI Desktop Obtain Word Cloud custom visual from

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